On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Carlos E. R.
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On Friday, 2010-10-29 at 11:42 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
fyi: some of the opensuse developer / project lists are being opened up to allow non-subscriber posts. The advantage is that if a topic comes up that needs the input of a non-subscriber, then they can just be added to the cc: line.
The trouble is that for those lists reply-all needs to become the norm for the to actually work correctly.
I'm a proponent of the change, but I doubt it will make its way to the end-user lists like this one anytime soon.
I see several problems.
* It will open up the lists for spammers.
I believe opensuse-project and opensuse-kernel were opened up a couple months ago. I'm on both and have not seen many complaints yet. But, yes a couple spams have gotten through the spam filters, but not many.
* Some people will get two copies, one on list, one off list (which will cause complains, and confussion).
For now it is more for the devels who see this behavior from other lists they are on.
* Of those people, if they are using gmail (which many do), they will only receive the direct, off-list reply (gmail removes the second email with the same ID).
And.... (note I often use gmail with the kernel mailing lists that behave this way. In fact even Linus has started to use gmail for LKML activity.) I've seen no complaints about gmails handling of email as far as this specific issue is concerned.
* When those gmail people reply, the reply might only go direct, not to the list.
I guess that happens. But I'm not sure its any worse than now on this list. ie. we often see people complain about having to "reply to list".
* And some other thing I forgot :-)
We'll see how it works on the other lists. If you want to see the discussion that led up to this, I think it was on opensuse-project (and yes I was one that pushed for it.)
An alternative, if the software allowed, would be to subscribe the external person automatically to that thread alone. Or for a limited time.
No idea about that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org